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The .NET platform poses challenging problems for manufacturers and vendors who must guard against illegal duplication of their software, a practice that costs software developers tens of thousands of dollars each year. Only software protection solutions that deter reverse engineering of code are effective.

This paper details:

• Three major reasons that obfuscation, while inexpensive and fast, falls short from protecting .NET software from being copied.
• The two mediums where encryption can be used on a program.
• The key benefit to code encryption.
• The "infinite complexity" feature of code encryption.

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